KENYA: Challenge, Then Shoot

Through Nairobi's crowded Indian bazaars and
squalid Negro quarter sped an ugly rumor: all Negro nursemaids had been
ordered by the Mau Mau to murder white babies in their charge. The
whites, hearing the rumor, took no chances. By train, by road and
plane, hundreds of white children were sent to friends in Mombasa, 300
miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau
Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a
big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court...